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Name: Arthur Ceghorn Wight
Gender: Male
Baptism/Christening Date: 11 Oct 1807
Baptism/Christening Place: Masulipatam, Madras, India
Birth Date: 25 Sep 1807
Birthplace:
Death Date:
Name Note:
Race:
Father's Name: James Wight
Father's Birthplace:
Father's Age:
Mother's Name: Eliza
Mother's Birthplace:
Mother's Age:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C00066-7
System Origin: India-EASy
Source Film Number: 506955
Reference Number:
Collection: India Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947



Dee x

Hello Ann

Aargh Wight, White, Wright to go with Stuart, Stewart and MacNaughton and McNaughton.

Ooh it gets complicated but when you do find something like the Major being in the grave with my great great its absolutely amazing.

thank you everybody for your help Angela

Hello Dee

Maybe a red herring but you never know I have seen Wight spelt White on my father's birth cert, so certainly worth looking at

thank you angela

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Name: Catherine Wright
Event type: Marriage
Start date: 1 - Mar
Start year: 1832
End date: End year: Location: Spouse: J.C.G. Stuart
Age: Status:
Parents: Notes: At Masulipatam,
Liuet. J.C.G. Stuart, 42th N.I., to Catherine, daughter of Lieut. Col. Wright
.Transcribed by: FIBIS
India Office Records Reference:
Source name: East India RegisterSource year: 1833Source edition: 1 & 2Presidency: Madras

Hello Jill
I have got copy of the Major's cert, it was my great great grandfather Alexander McNaughton present at death and it was London and sorry I do know where the Major was born - India 1807, parents James Wight and Eliza Yates married in India 1805.

Anne thank you for the list of James Stuart on IGI I will check them out, it is difficult finding things for Jamaica as I know with trying to track Nancy Stuart.

This maybe a red herring but you never know???


Groom's Name: James Charles Grant Stuart
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace:
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Catherine Mavenraher White
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace:
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 01 Mar 1832
Marriage Place: Masulipatam, Madras, India
Groom's Father's Name:
Groom's Mother's Name:
Bride's Father's Name:
Bride's Mother's Name:
Groom's Race:
Groom's Marital Status: Single
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race:
Bride's Marital Status: Single
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00057-9
System Origin: India-EASy
Source Film Number: 521840
Reference Number:
Collection: India Marriages, 1792-1948



Dee x

International Genealogical Index - Asia
105. JAMES ROEBUCK STUART - International Genealogical Index / AS
Gender: Male Christening: 26 FEB 1796 Fort St George, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India

106. JAMES STUART - International Genealogical Index / AS
Gender: Male Christening: 10 SEP 1808 Fort St George, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India

107. James Stuart - International Genealogical Index / AS
Gender: Male Christening: 10 JUL 1816 Madras, Tamil Nadu, India

108. JAMES NICHOLSON STUART - International Genealogical Index / AS
Gender: Male Christening: 11 FEB 1855 Calcutta, West Bengal, India

109. James Clement Stuart - International Genealogical Index / AS
Gender: Male Birth:

110. James Clement Stuart - International Genealogical Index / AS
Gender: Male Birth:

111. James Leslie Stuart - International Genealogical Index / AS
Gender: Male Christening: 05 NOV 1893 Gooty, , Tamil Nadu, India

Matches: International Genealogical Index/Asia - 7

International Genealogical Index - Caribbean Islands
137. James Stewart Stuart - International Genealogical Index / CX
Gender: Male Marriage: 13 NOV 1781 St Andrews,Dallas Castle, , Jamaica, Caribbean

138. JAMES HENRY STUART OR CLARKE - International Genealogical Index / CX
Gender: Male Christening: 02 JAN 1841 Saint Michael, Barbados, Caribbean

139. JAMES EDWARD STUART - International Genealogical Index / CX
Gender: Male Christening: 08 DEC 1842 Saint Thomas, Barbados, Caribbean

140. JAMES CHRISTOPHER WALTERS STUART - International Genealogical Index / CX
Gender: Male Christening: 22 OCT 1865 Saint James, Barbados, Caribbean

141. JAMES THOMAS STUART - International Genealogical Index / CX
Gender: Male Christening: 28 OCT 1866 Saint James, Barbados, Caribbean

142. JAMES THOMAS STUART - International Genealogical Index / CX
Gender: Male Christening: 11 MAR 1870 Saint Andrew, Barbados, Caribbean

Matches: International Genealogical Index/Caribbean Islands - 6

No - makes perfect sense to me - and is exactly the sort of thing I would try to do.

If you've found the Major's grave you could try for his death cert as that should give his age (depending on when the event happened and who informed the registrar etc). His age would help to perhaps pin him down in censuses and find his birth place etc.

Jill

Well and please don't shout, last year I was looking for a Major General Arthur Cleghorn Wight on this site and did get some info, but not enough to tie him to my tree. Long story but this man left everything he owned to my great grandmother,her will only states my 'late relative' so ever since I have been trying to connect the 'Wight' to either McNaughton or now 'Stuart.
Anyway I have just found the grave of the Major and he is buried with my great great grandfather and his wife.
The grave was purchased by a Catherine Stewart (Stuart) and I remembered a contact had said she thought that the Major had a sister Catherine who married a Colonel James Stuart.
Sorry for the bumble but it makes sense to me!! So hence I am trying to find this marriage to see if James Stuart is a brother to my Nancy Stuart.

But how did you get to them? If they're not direct ancestors then are they siblings of direct ancestors? It all helps.

Jill

Hello Jill

Well I googled James Stuart, you can imagine what came up!

Sorry as I said not a lot of info the marriage was possibly India and he was possibly born in Jamaica.

Thank you for coming back anyway

You will need to add just a little bit more information Angela as it's needle in a haystack time otherwise ...

If you are descended from one of their children then the details of that child might help.

If you have any idea of whereabouts in the world the marriage may have taken place that might help too.

Jill

p.s. Have you Googled?

Not too much info here but i think that Catherine Wight married a Colonel James Stuart, the only dates I have is that it would have been in the 1800's.
Can anybody shed any light on this please
Thank you Angela